Robert Berry

We stand here this evening the greatest Nation that has ever been in the history of the world. There has never been another country that has the economic, the military, and the political power that this country does. And yet our senior…

I have never had anyone tell me, ``You ought to do away with Medicare.'' I do not understand. Our seniors like Medicare. It is a good program. It works. It is successful. It is what they need. They just need a prescription drug benefit to…

my amendment cuts $693,000 out of the salaries and expenses of the office of the Undersecretary for Natural Resources and the Environment at the Department of Agriculture. It puts this money in the Resource Conservation and Development…

As the gentleman has said, Americans pay outrageously high prices for prescription drugs. Over and over and over we hear it from our constituents. They must make the choice between food and medicine. There is no way that the greatest…

this evening I want to commend the President, the Speaker of the House, and leaders on both sides of the aisle for their work on China permanent normal trade relations. I commend the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Combest) of the Committee on…

Mr. Speaker, I am on the floor this evening, because, quite simply, the prescription drug manufacturers in this country are ripping off the American people, and even worse, they are ripping off the senior citizens of this country. It is…

I want to speak this evening in support of Permanent Normal Trading Relations with China. I want to commend the Speaker of the House for setting a date when we will have the vote before Memorial Day. I want to commend the President for the…

It is amazing to me, Mr. Speaker, that here we are, it is 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and we are doing special orders. That is not what the American people sent us here to do. They sent us here to deal with things like the Patients' Bill…

Who we are talking about is the greatest generation that Tom Brokaw wrote so eloquently about, the people that were born and grew up during the Depression fought World War II and then built this country into the greatest Nation it has ever…

Mr. Speaker, it has been 3 months since the House passed a bipartisan Patients' Bill of Rights legislation. The American people still do not have protections they want and deserve. Mr. Speaker, last night, I offered the motion to instruct…

Mr. Speaker, I want to acknowledge and express my appreciation for the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Norwood), the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Ganske), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell), the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro)…

Mr. Speaker, our farmers need the assistance in this bill, and they need a lot more. The funding in this bill is just simply not enough. The other side of the aisle comes to the well over and over to criticize the lack of action on trade…

We cannot be this successful without making good decisions. It is absolutely amazing to me that we are even having this discussion. We all know, and as my colleague, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner) just talked about, as we were in…

I do not want to have to face my grandchildren 20 years from now and look them in the eye and let them ask me, ``Why did you not do something when you had the chance?'' I think we all know what we need to do, and it is a matter of having…

We not only have emergency spending we are going to have to do for agriculture this year to keep it in business. As my colleague, the gentleman from Texas, also just mentioned, these terrible shortfalls that we have in rural hospitals and…

Mr. Speaker, once again we are here asking the Republican leadership to bring patients rights legislation to the floor for a vote, once again. We need this reform so we can make managed care work. We need managed care. We are only asking…

I rise today to support our troops and to express my complete disgust at the process forced on the House of Representatives by the Republican majority. Today I am faced with a choice. I want to do two things: support our men and women who…

I would like to speak this evening about the Prescription Drug Fairness Act for Seniors. This legislation will help the problem that our Nation's seniors have had to deal with for years, and that is the outrageous prices of prescription…

I rise today because the steelworkers in Northeast Arkansas and all over this country are frustrated, and they are the most productive steelworkers in the world. They have lost faith in their government's promise to uphold its basic trade…

It is springtime in America. Normally that means that there is great optimism, great excitement, particularly among our agriculture community. Our farmers know that now is the time to put the seed in the ground and prepare for the fall's…

There is not a more frustrating time than in the springtime when you cannot get in the field. To be in a position where you have the weather to plant but you cannot plant because you have not got a production loan is the most frustrating…

Certainly all of us that represent major agriculture-producing areas are mystified by the actions of the Speaker and the Republican leaders on this matter, and hopefully very soon this will be resolved. It is so irresponsible for us to…

I am a bit sad this evening to have to come to this floor again to express the concern I have for America's farmers. I consider and have always considered myself, since the time I have been old enough to understand, privileged to be born a…

all of us that participated in the trip came away with a new appreciation for what happened in Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham. We are very appreciative of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Upton) and certainly the gentleman from Georgia…

I rise today in support of fiscal responsibility and budgetary common sense, which I think we all are in support of. As this budget debate has begun, and it continues, I am reminded of a fellow that I used to eat breakfast with every…